Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without landing. Here’s how they rest while flying, according to ...
Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...
The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of the ...
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New Study Reveals That Birds With Very Small Brains Are Much Smarter Than Previously Believed
Birds are amazing creatures with some incredible abilities. While some birds are quite smart, the majority seem to be dumb compared to other animals. This reputation is, at least in part, due to the ...
Navaornis hestiae (center) documents a previously unknown intermediate stage in the evolution of the central nervous system between the earliest birds (like Archaeopteryx on the left) and living birds ...
Bird brains may be tiny, but they pack in as many—or more—neurons as much larger animals. Similar to humans and other animals with higher intelligence, the executive center of a bird's brain allows ...
A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution. A ...
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